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The joy radiating from Jeremy Finlayson's face when he booted five goals to steer Port Adelaide to a crucial AFL win over the Western Bulldogs last weekend was palpable.
That joy was about more than just football, with the Power recruit revealing to the Herald Sun the behind-the-scenes battle his young family has faced and the miracle that has kept them together.
Last year should have been a year of joy for Finlayson. He was playing AFL footy with GWS and his partner Kellie had given birth to a baby girl.
Power star Jeremy Finlayson reveals his partner Kellie was diagnosed with an inoperable tennis ball-sized tumour just after their baby was born
He made a request to be traded to Brisbane or Adelaide so they could be closer to family and landed in Port Adelaide, the 2021 preliminary finalists. Life should have been good.
However Kellie was in pain, going to the toilet more often than normal. It was dismissed by too many medical professionals as complications following childbirth. Until it finally wasn't, it was their worst possible nightmare. Cancer.
A tumour the size of a tennis ball to be specific, lodged in Kellie's bowel where it could not safely be surgically removed. Talks of we will cure you soon diminished to we will try to cure you.
It turned their world's upside down, but Finlayson toiled on the training park and in games anyway, not knowing what news would await him tomorrow.
Port Adelaide and GWS' extended communities wrapped their arms around the young family, all while keeping their terrifying and potentially deadly secret.
Compounding the pain that Finlayson was going through behind the scenes, the new recruit has been publicly lashed by angry Port fans who correlate his arrival with the Power's horror start to the 2022
